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Notes on the priesthood : fragment of an autograph manuscript.

BIB_ID
211893
Accession number
MA 2033.12
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
England, 1821(?).
Credit line
Gift of Clifton Waller Barrett, 1960.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.8 x 16.7 cm
Notes
Watermark, 1796.
Part of a collection of autograph notes and autograph manuscript fragments for essays and lectures.
This manuscript fragment is undated, however, a note accompanying this letter, in the hand of Ernest Hartley Coleridge, suggests that the letter "Probably dates from Highgate period (subsequent to 1820) and may have been [illegible] together as notes for Green or one of his pupils."
Provenance
Gift of Clifton Waller Barrett, 1960.
Summary
Being a fragment of an essay on the priesthood beginning with "The power of a Priesthood, how it is beneficial" and ending "I have said that the Conjurer(?) must split himself into the Warrior, Physician, Priest - It may be objected that the Priests of Egypt were at once Priests, & Physicians - & those of Palestine, Priests, Physicians & Lawyers - This is however merely nominal - the Priest was the Class name / but it could not but happen, & did happen, that a certain order of the Priests applied themselves more particularly to healing, others, to the Ceremonies, others to public Teaching - i.e. Legislation."